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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: quickpkg on a complete system?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:02:23
Message-Id: CAK2H+eex7g6aEgUnRt0TzmiMwkxJD5wReDXM0F+ZL9ZD0BYyFQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] quickpkg on a complete system? by Mark Knecht
1 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >   I have a system in which I've never used the buildpkg feature so I
4 > have no packages. The machine is completely up to date - i.e. - emerge
5 > -DuN @world does nothing new.
6 >
7 >   I know if I turn on buildpkg and do an emerge -e @world, assuming
8 > all the compiling completes without error, emerge will create packages
9 > for everything that's install. That however takes lots of time.
10 >
11 >   I was reading about the quickpkg feature which supposedly creates
12 > packages from what's already installed, but I'm not sure how to
13 > actually run that for a complete system like this. If I put
14 > FEATURES="quickpkg" in make.conf and run emerge -e @world, will emerge
15 > simply make the packages for anything that's already installed, but
16 > not actually compile the packages themselves?
17 >
18 > Thanks,
19 > Mark
20
21 OK, silly confusion on my part. quickpkg isn't a portage feature, it's
22 a Python script installed as part of portage.
23
24 Cheers,
25 Mark